Karnaukhov, Dmitry Vladimirovich

Born in the city of Biysk in 1973

In 1996, he graduated from the Department of World Culture History at the Faculty of History of the Novosibirsk State Pedagogical University with a degree in history and world culture.

In 2000 he was awarded the degree of candidate of historical sciences. Thesis: Polish historical book and the development of ideas about the origin of the Eastern Slavs (15-17 centuries) ^[1]

In 2011 he was awarded the degree of doctor of historical sciences. Thesis: History of medieval Russia in the Polish chronography of the late XV - early XVII centuries. ^[one]

As a visiting professor, he taught at the Faculty of History at the University of Warsaw (2011), as well as at the Institute of Russia and Eastern Europe at the Jagiellonian University in Krakow (2016-2017).

Since 2012, after defending a doctoral dissertation at the Institute of Russian History of the Russian Academy of Sciences and nostrifying the degree of Doctor of Historical Sciences in Poland, he taught at the Faculty of Political Science and the History Department of the Academy of Humanities named after Alexander Geyshtora in Pultusk.

From 2013, he lived in Poland, worked at the Alexander Geyshtor Academy of Humanitarian Sciences ( Akademia Humanistyczna im. Aleksandra Gieysztora ).

Organizer and coordinator of cooperation of scientific and educational centers of Novosibirsk with Polish universities and institutes of the Polish Academy of Sciences. Member of the Novosibirsk House of Polish cultural and educational organization, initiator of the regular Days of Polish Science in Novosibirsk (2013–1016), representative of the Russian Institute for Strategic Studies in Poland (2013–2016), an active participant in the Polish Russian scientific projects and programs.

October 11, 2017 was expelled from Poland on charges of conducting activities “with elements of hybrid warfare”.

Deportation from Poland

On October 11, the Internal Security Agency of Poland (AVB) deported D. V. Karnaukhova from the country. On October 13, an official statement was issued by the spokesman for the Polish minister’s special services. Here is the full text of the statement.

"At the request of the head of the Internal Security Agency on October 11, a citizen of the Russian Federation Dmitry K. was expelled from the territory of Poland. According to established facts, the historian acted against the state interests of Poland, initiated elements of a hybrid war against Poland, and also maintained contact with the Russian special services. ^[2]

The expulsion of a Russian scientist from Poland is another scandal on the grounds of espionage. The incident testifies to the unwillingness of Warsaw to stop the aggravation of tension, - said in the statement of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, which leads the TASS agency. The historian Dmitry Karnaukhov was expelled after authorities suspected him of working for the Russian special services. According to AP, citing the Polish Homeland Security Agency, Karnaukhov, hiding behind cooperation with educational institutions, was in fact an instrument of hybrid war: he allegedly used his connections with local scientists and journalists to promote Russia's position. Warsaw claims that the professor was faced with the task of discrediting the Polish authorities and undermining their relationship with Ukraine. In Moscow, they believe that the desire to look for signs of “hybrid attacks” in everything is nothing but a deliberate anti-Russian course of the Polish leadership. ^[3]

The Russian Foreign Ministry announced that they would respond to the decision of the Polish authorities to deport Karnaukhov. “We believe that the latest spy scandal scandal inflicted by the Polish authorities with the duty set of unproved accusations testifies to the unwillingness of official Warsaw to stop artificially inflating tensions with Russia. The desire to look for signs of “hybrid attacks” and subversive activities on our part fits into the conscious anti-Russian course of the current leadership of Poland, ”the ministry stressed. ^[four]

Dmitry Karnaukhov himself, in an interview with the newspaper Kommersant, describes his deportation this way: “In the evening, Polish intelligence officers came home to me, handcuffed me, and took me to an unmarked car to the police station, where I had to spend the night in a cell with felons.” <...> According to a Russian scientist, his mobile phone was taken from him and refused to be connected with the embassy. The next morning he was deported to Russia, despite the fact that in Poland he still had personal belongings and an archive. " ^[5]

“Within a day I had to leave the territory of the country, while they didn’t bring any charges against me, didn’t show any evidence, didn’t show a paper stating that all the facts confirming my guilt are classified. Moreover, I didn’t even communicate with representatives of the Polish special services, who made up a corresponding file for me. No conversation was conducted with me. The evidence did not lead in the public sphere either, that is, in the Polish media, which reprinted the same statement with minor changes. Therefore, I conclude that this is a purposeful provocation directed against me personally and against the country of which I am a citizen. ” ^[6]

Russia's mirror response

On November 25, the FSB demanded ahead of time to leave the Polish historian, professor of the Jagiellonian University Henrik Glembotsky, who had worked in the archives of the Russian Federation for many years before. The Russian Foreign Ministry said that the expulsion of Henrik Glembotsky is a mirror response to the “unfriendly act” of the deportation of Dmitry Karnaukhov. ^[7]

The Polish authorities stated that they were "incomprehensible" about the decision to expel Mr. Glembotsky. The Polish Foreign Ministry expressed an official protest and stated that “guarantees of a free dialogue between Polish and Russian historians are especially valuable and should be defended, not limited.” [Kommersant] requested the Polish diplomatic department to clarify this statement in more detail. To the question of whether the two expulsions of historians are examples of restrictions on the cultural and humanitarian sphere, the Polish Foreign Ministry replied: "These two cases are fundamentally different." “Dmitry Karnaukhov acted to the detriment of the security of Poland and with the assistance of the Russian special services,” a representative of the Polish Foreign Ministry told [“Kommersant”], while Henrik Glembocki tried to find out the truth about the criminal regime of Joseph Stalin. ^[7]

Georgy Bovt, a Russian political analyst and editor-in-chief of the newspaper Izvestia, commented on Radio Business FM to Russia's mirror response as follows: “If you look at Karnaukhov’s list of scientific works, you might think that if we are a spy, it’s very deep. The topic of his doctoral dissertation is “The History of Medieval Russia in Polish chronography of the end of the 15th - beginning of the 17th centuries”. He has been engaged in Polish-Russian relations in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries for more than 20 years. He is the author of dozens of scientific papers. In the context of today's situation, this article seems to be very relevant: "The roots of the narratives of hatred and enmity: historiography as a factor in the stigmatization of Russia and the East Slavic peoples in Poland." It was published, including, in Polish in 2016. And this scientist is accused of being “hiding behind cooperation with educational institutions and using his connections with local scientists and journalists, trying to promote the position of Russia.” He was allegedly tasked with discrediting the Polish authorities and undermining their relations with Ukraine. No other way than he somewhere mentioned the "Volyn Massacre", arranged for the Poles by the Ukrainian Bandera during the Second World War. <...> The Russian Foreign Ministry warned in advance: the answer will be. As we now moved, mirror. He followed. For some reason, the reaction of Warsaw followed, as in that joke about Bandera, who first dealt with two Jews and then paid the price themselves. But we managed to be surprised: they say, and why should we? ” ^[8]

Dmitry Karnaukhov himself also commented on the expulsion of the Polish colleague to the Russian press: “My story is a pure provocation that has been prepared for a long time,” the Novosibirsk historian Dmitry Karnaukhov himself told Fontanka. - It was tied to specific dates and events to cause a chain of consequences. And the expulsion of a Polish colleague is the very consequence. And this is not the last stage, and not the beginning of the end, not even the climax. Absolutely consciously, purposefully, systematically unwinding a certain spiral. And this is not spun by our side. We are forced to infopovody, a certain scenario. Russia is not interested in any conflict with Poland in the field of history. We have to deal with the agenda that is being imposed on us. Our authorities are behaving very correctly and adequately. Compared to the Polish side, this is heaven and earth. ” ^[9]

“I certainly sympathize with my Polish colleague,” says Dmitry Karnaukhov. “Although there is a nuance, neither he nor the Institute of National Remembrance responded to my expulsion, they did not show solidarity with my colleague from Russia.” ^[five]

• D. Karnaukhov. The history of the Russian lands in the Polish chronography of the end of the XV - beginning of the XVII century Novosibirsk: Publishing House of SPSTL SB RAS, 2009. 232 p.
• Karnaukhov D.V. Conceptions of the history of medieval Russia in Polish chronography of the Renaissance. Novosibirsk: Publishing House of the NGPU, 2010. 291 p.
• D. Karnaukhov. "Russian" and "Moscow" news in the writings of Polish historians of the second half of the 15th - early 17th centuries. (historiographical aspect) - Novosibirsk: Publishing house of the NGPU, 2014. - 209 p. - 500 copies - ISBN 978-5-00023-388-7 .

• Karnaukhov D.V. The historical image of Muscovy in the Polish chronography of the Renaissance. Bulletin of the RSUH No. 10/08. M., 2008. pp. 101-1114. [one]
• D. Karnaukhov. Images of Eurasian Ethnicity in the Works of Polish Renaissance Historians. Archeology, ethnography and anthropology of Eurasia 4 (40). Novosibirsk, 2009. p. 92 - 99. [2]
• Karnaukhov D.V. The history of medieval Russia in Polish chronography of the end of the XV - beginning of the XVII century. Abstract of dissertation for the degree of Doctor of Historical Sciences. M., 2011. 51 c. [3]
• D. Karnaukhov. The First World War: Historiographical Myths and Historical Memory: Monogr .: 3 kN./ Ed. Dr. East. Sciences O.V. Petrovskaya; Grew up Inst Strategist, Issled. Prince 1: “Peoples of the Russian Empire” / M., 2014. ISBN 978-5-7893-0192-0 Page: 185—215 ^[10] [4]

• Erusalimsky K.Yu. Res Rossica et Moscovitica: notes on the research of D.V. Karnaukhova // Historical Bulletin . T. 9 [156]. M., 2014. pp. 294-317.
• Waugh D. Karnaukhov on Renaissance Polish authors about Muscovy . Discussion published by Daniel Waugh on Wednesday, H-EarlySlavic, September 24, 2014.